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Roger Federer‘s straight-sets win over Andreas Seppi in the second round of the 2013 Shanghai Masters on Wednesday was impressive, but hardly came as a surprise. After all, Fed is now 10-0 all time against the 22nd-ranked Italian. Beating electrifying Frenchman Gael Monfils in the third round on Thursday will be a much more daunting task for the fifth-seeded Federer. Prevailing in that...
Published: October 8, 2013
Father Time has caught up to Roger Federer on the tennis court in recent years, but there’s no denying that the 17-time Grand Slam champion still has an unrivaled sense of humor. Federer, who has only been on Twitter for a few months, posted a photo of himself hitting balls in practice on Tuesday at the 2013 Shanghai Masters, poking fun at former NBA star Allen Iverson’s infamous...
Published: October 7, 2013
The eighth ATP Masters 1000 tournament of the season is officially underway in Shanghai, China, where the world’s top tennis stars will look to build momentum ahead of this fall’s year-end championships. Defending tournament champion Novak Djokovic heads a star-studded field of men’s players, one that includes Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. Nadal, who was a finalist in Shanghai...
Published: October 5, 2013
The 2013 Presidents Cup will continue on Saturday as tournament officials, players and captains prepare for a potential marathon day at Muirfield Village after thunderstorms delayed action on Friday. Only two of the six foursome matchups were completed on Day 2 and they were routs. Phil Mickelson and Keegan Bradley rolled Jason Day and Graham DeLaet to pick up a point for the United States, but Ernie...
Published: September 30, 2013
Two top-10 tennis stars in Juan Martin del Potro and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga will lead a field of talented players in Tokyo for the 2013 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships this week. Tsonga won this tournament as recently as 2009 while del Potro has never won, coming closest in 2008, when he finished as a finalist behind Tomas Berdych. Nevertheless the former U.S. Open champion is seen as the...
Published: September 27, 2013
Forty years after tennis’ “Battle of the Sexes,” world No. 1 Novak Djokovic and Chinese star Li Na went head-to-head in a much-anticipated charity match in Beijing on Friday, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the China Open. For tennis fans in attendance and those watching around the globe, the rare matchup offered an opportunity to see two tennis greats in an entirely different...
Published: September 23, 2013
World No. 6 Tomas Berdych heads a talented field at the 2013 ATP Thailand Open this September. The overall top seed in the singles draw, Berdych will take aim at his first ever title on the indoor hard courts of Bangkok. The 28-year-old Czech will face plenty of stiff competition in Southeast Asia, though. Defending tournament champion Richard Gasquet is seeded second at the bottom of the draw, while...
Published: September 22, 2013
Mercifully for Tiger Woods, the 2013 Tour Championship will conclude on Sunday at East Lake in Atlanta. The world’s No. 1-ranked golfer shot his first birdie-less round in over three years in Thursday’s opening round, per ESPN researcher Justin Ray, and collapsed a day later after recording not one, but two double bogeys over the final five holes of the second round. Fortunately,...
Published: September 19, 2013
Following a lackluster opening-round performance Thursday at East Lake, Tiger Woods will have plenty of ground to make up on the leaders this weekend in Atlanta if he hopes to win the 2013 Tour Championship. Woods had very little luck with the putter in Round 1, failing to record a single birdie through 18 holes and shooting a three-over 73 to finish the first round nine shots back of leader Henrik...
Published: September 16, 2013
A pair of top-ranked Frenchmen will lead an impressive draw at the 2013 ATP Open de Moselle, one of 40 ATP 250 series tournaments that will take place on the indoor hard courts in Metz, France, this September. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who withdrew from Wimbledon and missed the U.S. Open because of a knee injury, and Gilles Simon, who has returned from a two-month bout with whooping cough, are the...